mediocre vertical shoot'em up, too slow to be fun, and with strange, confuse graphics, full of colours like an abstract painting.
This obscure unofficial Czech Xenon II clone is one of the worst shoot-em-ups I ever played on any system. Sketchy and garishly colored graphics, slow and jerky scrolling and movement, tired gameplay make this game a real disaster.
Luckily there are many better similar games available for the Spectrum. This is simply bad.
Review by Raphie on 14 Feb 2012 (Rating: 2)
Apart from a music programme and a word processor, this is the only game Lubomir Salanci has brought out on the ZX Spectrum and after one play of this game I can vividly see why.
The game has a rather interesting intro complete with digitized music, which is then followed by a tune entirely made in random notes.
As for the gameplay, well it's downhill from here I'm afraid, slow, jerky, difficult to hit anything, in fact the graphics make it difficult to actually tell if you've hit anything or not! There is just far too much detail in the graphics which I personally think causes the slowdown, and because it's slow and it's tough as nails.
Definately not a resounding shmup to say the least, looking at the average score (6.45 after 11 votes at the time of this review....if you can call this a review that is) I was looking forward to playing this, but now I wish I hadn't. I was incredibly disappointed in this.
To sum up Axons in three words, slow, jerky and over-rated.
